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An Assessment of the Population Impacts of Select
Hypothetical Amendments to Section 6 of the Indian Act
“Because our law is our law”: Considering Anishinaabe Citizenship Orders through Adoption Narratives at Fort William First Nation
Blood Tribe/Kainaiwa Inquiry: Akers Surrender 1889 Claim, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains letters/memos, submissions, band council documents, and reports in regards to the dispute over the federal government taking over 440 acres of mineral-rich reserve land without full consent or compensation.
The Board Room Trumps the Courtroom: Reconciliation through Impact and Benefit Agreements
Bridging the Gap: Taxation and First Nation Governance
Canupawakpa Dakota First Nation Turtle Mountain Surrender Claim - Public Edition, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contains historical documents, memos, reports, correspondence/letters, maps and submissions regarding validity of the 1909 surrender claim. Commissioners include: Roger J. Austine, Daniel J. Bellegarde, and Sheila G. Purdy. [These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]
CAP - On Canada's Indian Act
Carry The Kettle - 1905 Surrender - Public Edition, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contains historical documents, reports, legal submissions, correspondence/letters, transcripts, and maps regarding the specific land claim, concerning the surrender of reserve land, by Carry the Kettle First Nation. Commissioners include : Sheila Purdy, Alan Holman, and Jane Dickson-Gilmore. [These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]
Duncan's First Nation Wrongful Surrender Claim, Public Edition, September 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contents consist of historical documents, maps, reports, legal documents, transcripts, correspondence/letters, submissions and the Inquiry Report in English and French versions. [These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]
Effective First Nations Governance: Navigating the Legacy of Colonization
Eskasoni First Nation Governance 4 of 4
Examining the Provisions of Section 87 of the Indian Act as a Means to Promote Economic Participation and Treaty Implementation
Finding Solutions for the Legislative Gaps in Determining Rights to the Family Home on Colonially Defined Indigenous Lands
First Nations Registration (Status) and Membership Research Report
Fundamentals of Aboriginal Law Certificate: Land Management Under the First Nation Land Management Act
Genocide, Assimilation, or Incorporation: Indigenous Identity and Modes of Resistance
Incentives, Identity, and the Growth of Canada's Indigenous Population
Indian Act Colonialism: A Century of Dishonour, 1869-1969
The Indian Act of 1876 Was Not Part of Treaty: A Treaty Resource Guide for Grade 4
The Key Band, 1909 Surrender Inquiry - Public Release, August 2008
Matrimonial Real Property on Reserve in Canada
Research paper discusses the Indian Act, provincial family laws, traditional Aboriginal property rights, and divorces.
Related Material: Fact Sheet.
Matrimonial Real Property Reform Overdue
Author examines the discrepancies between the Human Rights Act and the Indian Act regarding matrimonial property laws and reserve land.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.12.
"Privatize Reserve Lands? No. Improve Economic Development Conditions on Canadian Indian Reserves? Yes"
Recommendations on First Nations Access to Indian Moneys
Report of the Mediation of the Sturgeon Lake First Nation Treaty Land Entitlement Negotiations
Report on Regional Discussions on Aboriginal Identification Questions
Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing: Documentary Governance of Indigenous Life in Canada and Its Disruption
Statut des Premières Nations au Canada = First Nations Status in Canada [Map, 2017]
Still a Matter of Rights: a Special Report of the Canadian Human Rights Commission on the Repeal of Section 67 of the Canadian Human Rights Act
'They Have Presupmtiously Opposed the Department in Many Ways': Kainai Leadership and Indian Act Band Government, 1880-1920
Time to Move on From Colonial-era Indian Act
Understanding the Indian Act
Speakers discuss how the Act has defined the government's and Crown's relationship with First Nations peoples; how it has impeded development of communities; and how fundamental changes are needed to give First Nations' control over governance and the ability to develop mechanisms to improve access to capital.
Duration: 1:09:15.